‘cult’
GRÓF Ferenc: Finding Central Europe, 2023
… over the last 2000 years of human history. Other examples include Greater Europe (within the Culture States project, 2008), with its image of a maximalised area of Europe as dreamed up by irredentist and expansionist sentiments, and Mare Nostrum (2010), which transplants cities of the Mediterranean coast to the Arctic shoreline.
Daguerreotypes in the Collection of KEMKI ADK
… of Hungarian national identity in the nineteenth century Reform era. In addition to its cultural-historical significance, the series is also of significant technical-historical interest because very few verifiable Hungarian daguerreotypes have survived. This series is particularly special because it is the earliest surviving example of documentary photography in Hungary. The daguerreotypes in this series document art objects and the exact date and location of the daguerreotypes of …
Collection of Artist Relics
… acquisition from the nineteenth century onwards. Prominent artists were surrounded by a veritable cult; elegant receptions and ceremonies were organised for them, and their funerals were held with great pomp, attracting huge crowds. Later, anniversary commemorations were regularly held to honour their memory. Thus it was only natural that, alongside artists’ works and documents, museums should also add artists’ belongings to their collections. Examples of venerated nineteenth century artists …
The Design Center Archives
… of Industrial Textile Art. Of these, the exhibition entitled Heritage: Object and Environmental Culture in Hungary 1945–1985, which was held at the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest in 1985, is especially noteworthy. The Design Center also launched the Let’s Design Objects youth competition, which ran for several years and was accompanied by a television program as well. /Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári/
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in virtually every field of fine and applied arts, autonomous art, and design. The Lectorate’s decades-long operations are recorded in a collection of complexly diverse …